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Nancy McCarthy
Nancy McCarthy

New York Times, Friday, March 29, 1985

26-Across : Plexuses

Author:
Nancy McCarthy
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 31, Avg Word Len: 5.39, Missing: { F J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 268 (avg 1.38)
Open Squares: 76, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
Nancy McCarthy has 47 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1985, The New York TimesNo. 12,925
Across
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Did the hucklebuck : DANCED
7
At the nadir : LOWEST
13
Diacritical mark : CEDILLA
14
Shows : EVINCES
16
One of Webster's replies to Hayne : ORATION
17
Old hand : VETERAN
18
He, objectively : HIM
19
This makes paints : PIGMENT
21
Explorer Johnson : OSA
22
Satanic : EVIL
24
Approaches : NEARS
25
Uitlander foe: 1899-1902 : BOER
26
Plexuses : RETIA
28
Map abbr. : RTE
29
Kin of an ophicleide : BUGLE
30
Of perfect happiness : EDENIC
32
Sans twinklers : STARLESS
34
German river : EDER
36
Artist-author Silverstein : SHEL
37
Laden : BURDENED
41
Army engineer corpsman : SAPPER
45
Audibly : ALOUD
46
Kind of sister or story : SOB
48
Combine : MERGE
49
Sugar unit : LUMP
50
Mexican cornmeal mush : ATOLE
52
Trendy set : NEOS
53
S.E.C. member : ALA
54
Deviation from the rule : ANOMALY
56
French business abbr. : CIE
57
Brilliant bird : TANAGER
59
Pragmatic person : REALIST
61
Disintegrate: Brit. : ATOMISE
62
Enters the service : ENLISTS
63
Annalists' items : EVENTS
64
Fries quickly : SAUTES
Down
1
Inferred : DERIVED
2
Nudist : ADAMITE
3
Basketball tourn. letters : NIT
4
Football foul : CLIP
5
Remove to a distance, in law : ELOIN
6
Nick Carter's "___ Key" : DANGER
7
Young hares : LEVERETS
8
Oasts : OVENS
9
Katarina ___, figure skater : WITT
10
Chemical suffix : ENE
11
Marley's partner : SCROOGE
12
Prickly plants : TEASELS
13
Stick together : COHERE
15
Deadfalls : SNARES
20
On which nelsons occur : MATS
23
In a queue : LINEDUP
25
Whence a reliever comes : BULLPEN
27
Played the paraclete : AIDED
29
Carplike fish : BREAM
31
Recent: Comb. form : CEN
33
Gift-openers' sounds : AHS
35
Touches up a Rembrandt : RESTORES
37
Golf-ball ingredient from the bully tree : BALATA
38
Howl : ULULATE
39
Nicholas II's surname : ROMANOV
40
Condemn : DOOM
42
Exact : PRECISE
43
Solipsists : EGOISTS
44
Adjusts an alarm clock : RESETS
47
Sounds raucously : BLARES
50
"___ of robins ... " : ANEST
51
"Maria ___," 1933 song : ELENA
54
Opposed, in the backwoods : AGIN
55
Asian border river : YALU
58
Soul, to Simone : AME
60
Kindled : LIT

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1 unique to this puzzle, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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